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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2006, 11:04 AM (1 of 19)
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I am proper cream crackered - I have just taken my first science class (Year 7's - 12 year olds) and we were doing a practical -chemical reactions - metal + acid gives hydrogen + metal salt. The kids were great and we had a good time exploding the hydrogen! I had them dressing up afterwards as French (very reactive) Jamaican(slow but sure) and Brits (stiff upper lip - get there eventually) to show the difference in reactivity of the metals. I am going to be taking a Higher Level Teaching Assistant qualification and I have to have whole class teaching resonsibilities - my mentor tells me that when they have teacher training that they don't jump to do that which I have just done until after a year! I am sooo good! (can you tell I feel good!) love and kisses, Jan
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-29-2006, 11:09 AM (2 of 19)
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Go You!! Do you tell them Jokes? Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2006, 11:59 AM (3 of 19)
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No, but I did do the French and Jamaican accents....the British just came naturally.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-29-2006, 12:28 PM (4 of 19)
No secret, you enjoy your work Jan. The kids see it and enjoy you. It's a win-win situation. 
MaryW
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Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2006, 05:02 PM (5 of 19)
What's not to like about small contained explosions?  Hit the nail on the head there I think Mary! love and kisses, Jan
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From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 06-29-2006, 05:38 PM (6 of 19)
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Great stuff, just mind your eyebrows with those mini-explosions (I had a bad Christmas pudding experience once). Kids do respond to enthusiasm and you'll be great! And if they do get a little out of hand you can always show them your intestines 
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User: Domestic Goddes
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 06-29-2006, 09:49 PM (7 of 19)
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My parents bought my sister a chemistry set one time for christmas... Everything was great till one day we all heard an explosion....we went into the kitchen an there was purple everywhere...it was almost as good as the day my mother blew up her preassure cooker...blew a hole in the top, exploded pinto beans all over....(my Dad repaired the cooker by welding a metal 'cork' in the hole). I myself have never exploded anything other than my temper.... I bet yer a great teacher Jan and I wish there were more like YOU, here in the states...we could use some teachers that actually TEACH something... Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Butterflyrf71
Date: 06-30-2006, 07:37 AM (8 of 19)
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Children need fun and creative ways of learning - looks like you have found your niche and everyone wins. The kids have fun and learn, you have fun and have a job you love! Blessings to all your kids, and you! You Lord, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm, and place their trust in you. Isaiah 26:3, AV
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User: Butterflyrf71
Member since: 05-02-2006 Total posts: 257 
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From: stephi
Date: 06-30-2006, 09:19 AM (9 of 19)
Hey I found out that Fural (horse 1st aid ointment) and Super clean (tire cleaner by armourall) dont really mix well in my dads garage one day. Turns purple and bubbles...I never did get it to explode?? 
Stephi
"No body knows what it is that I do until I dont do it" "if you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten" |
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Member since: 03-17-2006 Total posts: 361 
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From: Magot
Date: 06-30-2006, 10:40 AM (10 of 19)
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.. along the lines of " this is the last one that crossed me...." 'Eh Dom? We get to play with my guts next terrm when we do human digestion! I was nervous before we started but it all went well and the kids have been saying how much they enjoyed it too so as you say Mary - win win. I remember in my A level chemistry we had to perform a synthesis - I made picric acid - an explosive used in the first world war. Seems like I started how I meant to go on! The have been making bicarbonate of soda and vinegar flour volcanos iin Geography - all good fun! love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 06-30-2006, 06:24 PM (11 of 19)
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.. along the lines of " this is the last one that crossed me...." 'Eh Dom? We get to play with my guts next terrm when we do human digestion! Suggest you find a pattern for a shrunken head just in case.....
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User: Domestic Goddes
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From: JohnBoy
Date: 08-04-2006, 07:46 AM (12 of 19)
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Hi Magot!!! Wow your classes sound really fun!! I wish mine were like that! I start Chemistry and Human Biology A-Levels again ( So I can apply for entry into Medical School in 2008), in the evenings in September. I carnt wait, I used to love chem!!!! The only bad thing I did when at school was when we were burinng magnesium, I got myself a bil ole roll of magnesium tape and since we were burining itwith no O2, was heating it in its porcelain jar!!!! THEN..... I KNOCKED IT OVEr!!!! WEll it had stated to combust already so noone could go near it, it was a bright blinding white light, and it landed onto our wooden lab top. It was like a bonfire, it burnt the top, and sent up a ton of burnt wood pieces, that came floating down like snow. Wow it was AMAZING!!!! he he he I doubt I will be doing anything fun at A-Level tho! Do you teach just science? I guess youll be the one to ask about my homework later this year!!!! Oh off subject a little, does anyone think im too old to become a doctor? Im 26 now, and am studying for my GAMSAT - medical school admission test. I really want to do it, and feel its my true calling after searching for so long. I do get these pangs of worry now and then tho, when I count and figure I will be qualified at 34 / 35!!! But I guess that not old is it? I guess I worry too much about the years flying by. Thanks All xxx |
User: JohnBoy
Member since: 07-18-2006 Total posts: 21 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 08-04-2006, 08:07 AM (13 of 19)
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My husband went back to school in his mid 40s. You're never to old. But at 26, Honey, you're not to old for anything!! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: MaryW
Date: 08-04-2006, 08:24 AM (14 of 19)
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I agree, give it up on this "old" thinking. Just go for it!
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: beachgirl
Date: 08-05-2006, 02:00 AM (15 of 19)
| You go for it John Boy !! Forget age, that's just a number & we never stop learning. Your young now & will still be young when you become a doctor. We need all the good drs we can muster & if that's what you want to be " go for it ". We will all be here to cheer you on. Bet the others won't have this many cheer leaders. Just think, if you don't do it you'll still be the same age if you didn't & you wouldn't be a doctor. |
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Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615 
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From: Magot
Date: 08-13-2006, 03:42 PM (16 of 19)
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I am a lab tach and teaching assistant John Boy - a career I love and started 2 years ago - 24 years after graduating - to old to start a neew career - Pish! Do what you what and practice saying - "You can trust me, I am a Doctor, I won't laugh" I get to frighten year 6 next term with my teaching techniques - I am thinking about going into teaching as a career move - too old at 49 to start teaching - I think not! love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: JohnBoy
Date: 08-14-2006, 06:33 AM (17 of 19)
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Oh Jan what a wonderful teacher you will make, Im guessing you have lots of patience, I think you would need too! I cannot imagine how school must be like now, I guess changed a lot since I was there! DEFF do your teaching Qualification, especially since the Government will let you do the years teaching course free, AND give you a wage whilst doing it, AND a GOLDEN HANDSHAKE!!!!! I beleive if you teach a science you get even more money, so that may well apply to you!. Do you have a degree already? If so what in?, would you want to teach that subject? My brothers gf, just completed her teaching qual this year, and she loves it, shes a promary school teacher. Hey, you could teach textiles!!!! Mind you Im not sure that if you spent all day every day teaching it, you may stop loving it as a hobby, there would always be that danger! |
User: JohnBoy
Member since: 07-18-2006 Total posts: 21
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From: mommydionne
Date: 08-14-2006, 02:31 PM (18 of 19)
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Congrats Jan! That's wonderful! You sound like hubbies chem teacher in high school, He made small amounts of contact explosives and scattered them around the lab floor so when the students walked in they started going off when stepped on , just an idea for the future for you!!
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: JohnBoy
Date: 08-14-2006, 03:56 PM (19 of 19)
| Is that really your photo mommydionne? , if it is your whats known in England as a YUMMY MUMMY!!!!!! |
User: JohnBoy
Member since: 07-18-2006 Total posts: 21
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